The remaining half of the cranial cavity still has a small amount of skull contents, but it has been burned.

Shockingly, the dagger was stuck in the mouth of the skull, and the blade had pierced into the cavity of the skull. Lu Jinping's heart couldn't help sinking, and he didn't peel it off further, because the following may involve relevant criminal evidence, and at that time, any clue may be the key to solving the entire case, and it must not cause the loss of clues.

He took off his coat and laid it on the floor, placing half of his head in his clothes, along with the stiff dirt in front of his mouth. At the same time, the second half of the found skull was also picked up and placed inside, and the ports were basically anastomosed, which preliminarily proved that it was a human skull.

After Lu Jinping searched for it, he asked Lei Zhutou and his subordinates to help him search through a dragnet search, but after the fire, almost all traces had been turned to ashes, and nothing useful was found except for some bone fragments found in the half-frozen mud.

Lu Jinping held a pile of bones in front of Feng Tingshi, unfolded it, showed Feng Tingshi the dagger stuck in the deceased's head, and said, "Lord Tingshi, I suspect that this is a homicide, and the deceased has a dagger stuck in his mouth. ”

As soon as he heard this, Feng Tingshi's mood was even heavier, if it was a fire in the mountains and forests, and people were burned to death when fighting the fire, it would be easier to deal with, and he could even use this to promote his own moral achievements, showing that the people under his command were kind and simple and brave, but now, what he found might be a murder case, once it can't be solved, it will affect his political performance, although he is already very confident in Lu Jinping's ability to solve the case, but he is afraid that if it can't be solved, it will still have an impact.

Feng Tingshi was lucky and said, "Could it be that the firefighter was injured by mistake?" ”

Lu Jinping was very sympathetic to Feng Tingshi's naïve thoughts, indeed, as a seal officer. He knew the impact of an unsolvable murder on the official fortune, but he still broke Feng Tingshi's last illusion: "Judging from the current situation, the deceased should have died before the mountain fire, not accidentally injured while fighting the fire." ”

"How so?"

"Because the corpses are already highly carbonized. Except for the fact that the face was buried in the mud and partially survived, the rest was basically carbonized, as I know, and the corpse was to be burned like this. The flame must last at least a few hours, and it must be burned intensively, and what we see is that the location of the corpse is at the foot of the mountain, and the flame is going up, so it is impossible for this place at the foot of the mountain to be burned by fire for several hours, and this forest fire will not add up to more than an hour, and such a fire cannot completely char a corpse, so I suspect that someone transported the corpse here for cremation. And the wind caused a wildfire, and adults can send someone to investigate the earliest fire, and if my guess is correct, it may be at the foot of this mountain, where the body was found. ”

Feng Tingshi nodded frequently and said, "Your analysis is very reasonable, there are not many trees near this depression, and it is impossible to burn it intensively for so long." Immediately check the people in the vicinity and find out where the fire started first. ”

Lu Jinping wrapped all the wreckage found in cloth and brought it back to the yamen to investigate it carefully.

And at this time, the results of the investigation also came out, and there were indeed many people who proved it. It was found that the fire was in the area below the mountain, which proves that the fire started was indeed as Lu Jinping said, and it was burned near the depression where the body was found. Then it burned upwards and set the entire mountain forest on fire.

After the scene was surveyed, it was already noon. The brigade withdrew to Tongzhou, and Lu Jinping took the remains found and went directly to his judicial army signing room in Tongzhou Yamen.

There was a large desk in his signing room, which was used to investigate and sift through the evidence, and he put a few large bags of bones under the table, and. Start cleaning up slowly.

He first put on plastic gloves to prevent his sweat stains from contaminating the bones and disrupting the direction of the investigation.

He first examined the entire bone fragments one by one. He found half of the pelvic bone, and judging by the shape and curvature of the pelvic bone, he could determine that it was a woman's pelvic bone, so it can be seen that the corpse bone must have belonged to a woman.

Judging from the gap in the skull, it can be preliminarily concluded that the age of this person should be relatively young, probably no more than thirty years old. Judging from the characteristics of the cheek bones extracted, it also showed that it was the skeleton of a woman, which further confirmed his speculation.

The rest of the investigation focused on the head, where the murder weapon was found.

He carefully peeled away a large lump of dry dirt from the corpse's mouth, finding no useful clues, all the way to the handle of the dagger. Although the corpse was buried in the depression with its head and face downward, due to the continuous high temperature of the fire, the temperature of the entire soil was extremely high, and the facial muscles had been completely carbonized, and at the same time, the dagger had also been burned by the high temperature, and the rope wrapped in the surface was basically burned, Lu Jinping did not dare to touch it, for fear of touching it.

Lu Jinping tried to clean up all the dirt on the side of the skull's mouth, and the soil was crushed one by one to find it, and after finding no clues, Lu Jinping carefully pulled out the dagger in the skull.

This dagger has a strange shape, there is a serration on the back, separated from the left and right, like a small sentence of the tail, and the saw has been opened, very sharp, and can be used as a saw.

This kind of dagger with a serrated back is still relatively common in modern society, especially after the appearance of this knife in the American movie Stallone's "The First Drop of Snow", it became popular. In fact, this kind of knife is mainly used by special forces. However, now this knife is different from the knives used by special forces that Lu Jinping saw in modern social films and televisions, and the back of this knife is really a saw, which can be used to saw wood.

This kind of shape is very strange in the Tang Dynasty, Lu Jinping has been in the Tang Dynasty for more than half a year, and he has seen a lot of knives, but he has never seen this kind of knife with a saw on its back.

The blade of this knife was completely blackened, and after Lu Jinping checked it, he felt that it was a dream to extract useful traces on it for identification.

Lu Jinping carefully removed the deceased's mandible, and after removing the mandible, he slowly took out the dry and hard soil that had filled his mouth.

The reason why he was so cautious was that he hoped to find DNA material in his mouth that could be used for cadaver testing. But when he saw the dry dirt, he was disappointed, and the DNA material must have been destroyed by the heat.

But he still carefully examined the deceased's mouth, because this half of the face was buried in the mud, so the whole mouth was stuffed with dirt, and the remaining brain contents in the skull, although charred, accumulated on the cheeks, which played a protective role.

He crushed the whole dirt one by one and examined it, but found nothing.

He was disappointed that the last thing that needed to be checked was the deceased's teeth.

When his eyes focused on the pointed tiger teeth of the removed mandible, his eyes lit up, and in the gap between the tiger teeth and the adjacent front teeth, he found a small handful of black hair!

Could it be that the deceased fought with the murderer and bit off a handful of the murderer's hair?

Lu Jinping was excited by this discovery, and he immediately took a closer look at the handful of hairs and found that several of them seemed to have hair follicles, which means that the DNA of the hairs may be detected! The key is to see whether this high temperature is a face-saving experience, and whether it will leave this last evidence for yourself.

He examined the follicular hairs, but he was shocked. -- It turned out that it was not human DNA, but some kind of canine one. He immediately retrieved the relevant database stored on the microcomputer and checked, and it turned out to be a large Mongolian shepherd dog!

What happened when the shepherd dog hair was found in the mouth of the deceased woman?

The hair was stuck between the teeth of the deceased's mouth, and the deceased was lying face down in the depression, his entire face was buried in the mud, and the deceased's mouth was stuffed with mud, covering the small handful of hair. A thick protective layer is formed. At the same time, the fire burned and melted the surrounding snow and collected into the depression, and although it was quickly dried by the fire, the continuous flow of water significantly reduced the time and extent of the burn on the deceased's face, so that several of the small hairs survived most of the heat.

Lu Jinping soaked and separated the entire teeth of the deceased and the soil inside the mouth with a solution, and then conducted a DNA test, hoping to find the DNA of the deceased and determine the source of the body.

Unfortunately, he was disappointed again by the test results, and no human DNA was found, and efforts to determine the source of the body failed.

Lu Jinping called Xiong Zhutou and two deputy head catchers to prepare for the investigation and deployment of the case.

The three of them came to the conference hall of the signing room. After taking his seat, Lu Jinping said: "The deceased found at the scene of the fire is likely to have died of murder because the deceased was stabbed into the brain with a serrated dagger in the mouth, which is a fatal wound. Other parts of the deceased's body have been highly carbonized and it is impossible to determine if there is an alternative cause of death, so for now, this is a known cause of death. Suicide in this way is rare, especially for a woman, and it is almost impossible for a woman to do so, so the preliminary inference is that it was a murder. ”

The three catchers looked at each other and asked, "Is it a woman who died?" ”

"Yes, and younger. The murderer stabbed her with a dagger in the mouth and stabbed her brain to death, and the method was very cruel, indicating that it was likely to be a vendetta. Next, I will talk about the direction of the case detection. Bear Catcher, you are in charge of investigating the source of the murder weapon dagger. -- Judging from the shape of the dagger, it is very strange, I believe that this is not an ordinary dagger, it is possible that there is a specific owner, if you can find out who holds this dagger, then the case will be a big step forward, so your work is very important, be sure to check carefully. ”

Xiong Zhutou bowed down to receive the order: "Okay, I will ask the Yamen painter to draw the shape of this dagger into several pictures and take them to the blacksmith shop for inquiry, and at the same time go to the armory shop to search, you should be able to find clues." (To be continued.) )